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• Bookmark The Thermodynamic Theory of Ecology | Quanta Magazine

  The Western Ghats in India rise like a wall between the Arabian Sea and the heart of the subcontinent to the east.

  January 12 2018, 3:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking: Julian Jaynes’ Famous 1970s Theory

  Julian Jaynes was living out of a couple of suitcases in a Princeton dorm in the early 1970s. He must have been an odd sight there among the undergraduates, some of…

  November 26 2017, 10:30am | Comments

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  October 2 2017, 4:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ultra-Black: Towards a Materialist Theory of Oil - Journal #84 September 2017…

  People think that they sell oil, but in fact they are becoming oil. —Victor Pelevin

  September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter 'The hole' in theory and thought I am interested in 'the hole' in its conceptual, metaphorical, and literal crossovers. Who has written about holes? In the ground? In theory? In myth and fiction? I'd be super keen to read theory that cites specific holes found in myth and fiction,…

  August 28 2017, 10:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Controversial New Theory Suggests Life Wasn't a Fluke of Biology—It Was Physics…

  The biophysicist Jeremy England made waves in 2013 with a new theory that cast the origin of life as an inevitable outcome of thermodynamics.

  August 6 2017, 11:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Accelerationism Without Accelerationism | The Disorder Of Things

  The second post in our forum on Nick and Alex Williams’ Inventing the Future, from Steven Shaviro. Steven is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. He blogs at The…

  July 24 2017, 5:27am | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Bookmark A Grand New Theory of Life's Evolution on Earth - The Atlantic

  A series of energy revolutions—some natural, some technological—built upon one another to give us our rich, diverse biosphere.

  May 20 2017, 6:35am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Hobbit' species did not evolve from ancestor of modern humans, research finds…

  Researchers who studied the bones of Homo floresiensis, a species of tiny human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, say their findings should end a popular theory that…

  April 25 2017, 8:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction

  Science fiction tells us that a change in a past event, caused by the intervention of a time traveler, will open up a parallel timeline that leads to an alternate present.…

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments

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  March 2 2017, 11:29am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Portfolio Across & Beyond: Transmediale Reader

  February 2 2017, 3:35am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Design+Media Theory | Public Seminar

  Our focus will be on key thinkers across the fields of media, design and technology. The course starts our everyday experience of designed and  mediated environments, whether as creators or regular users (1-3).

  December 30 2016, 9:09am | Comments

• Bookmark In Theory Bakhtin: Dialogism, Polyphony and Heteroglossia | Ceasefire Magazine

  Mikhail Bakhtin was one of the most important theorists of discourse in the twentieth century. He is sometimes termed the most important Soviet thinker in the social sciences. His work also…

  September 7 2016, 11:14am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache SYLLABUS | INTERNET ART: networks, performative programming, and web as…

  This course examines the history, theory, and practice of making art on the web. Beginning with early examples of systems theory, we will trace the utopian ideals of the web’s origin to the commercial and social complexity of…

  September 1 2016, 10:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Transhumanists are searching for a dystopian future - The Washington Post

  Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week, we’re talking about transhumanism. Need a primer? Catch up here. Charles…

  June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Technology won’t undermine human dignity. Fear of change will. - The Washington…

  Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week, we’re talking about transhumanism. Need a primer? Catch up here.

  June 15 2016, 4:59pm | Comments

• Additivism Screening of 3D Additivist Manifesto at Speeding and Braking Conference

  May 10 2016, 6:15am | Comments

• Additivism The thin line between theory and practice: a conversation on...

  April 20 2016, 7:43am | Comments

• Additivism Accelerationist Art

  April 14 2016, 3:44am | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 17 2016, 4:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Open Humanities Press– Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols

  Following on from Theory and the Disappearing Future, Cohen, Colebrook and Miller turn their attention to the eco-critical and environmental humanities’ newest and most fashionable of concepts, the Anthropocene.

  January 9 2016, 8:10am | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism Workshop @ Sonic Acts, Amsterdam (Feb/March 2016)

  Additivism Workshop @ Sonic Acts, Amsterdam (Feb/March 2016)We are excited to announce a 2 day #Additivism Workshop as part of Sonic Acts Academy, Feb/March 2016 The Sonic Acts Academy relates to topics that are connected to the ‘dark matter’ theme Sonic Acts is currently…

  December 22 2015, 4:20am | Comments

• Bookmark BuzzFeed's founder used to write Marxist theory and it explains BuzzFeed perfectly…

  BuzzFeed has achieved an outrageous amount of success in recent years, reaching an estimated 203 million people a month, including 112 million in the US alone, according to Quantcast. There are…

  December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Anthropocene and a Critical Theory of Machines | Heathwood Press

  The significance of the idea of the Anthropocene epoch is centrally about the understanding of human intervention into and extraction from nature, and one that can be signalled in the geological…

  November 28 2015, 4:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Accelerationism Without Accelerationism | The Disorder Of Things

  The second post in our forum on Nick and Alex Williams’ Inventing the Future, from Steven Shaviro. Steven is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. He blogs at The…

  November 7 2015, 9:06am | Comments

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  October 30 2015, 9:35am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter The Footprint on Crusoe's Island & its use in critical theory The single appearance of the footprint in Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel, Robinson Crusoe, is perhaps one of the most famous events in all of literature. I am interested in who has referenced it, and for what ends, especially in critical theory. I also…

  September 9 2015, 8:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Fredric Jameson reviews ‘Time Travel’ by David Wittenberg · LRB 10 September…

  It is probably not immediately obvious what interest a new theoretical study of science fiction holds for the mainstream adepts of literary theory; and no doubt it is just as perplexing…

  September 6 2015, 5:18am | Comments

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  August 18 2015, 8:42am | Comments

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• Bookmark The Thermodynamic Theory of Ecology | Quanta Magazine

  The Western Ghats in India rise like a wall between the Arabian Sea and the heart of the subcontinent to the east.

  January 12 2018, 3:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking: Julian Jaynes’ Famous 1970s Theory

  Julian Jaynes was living out of a couple of suitcases in a Princeton dorm in the early 1970s. He must have been an odd sight there among the undergraduates, some of…

  November 26 2017, 10:30am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 2 2017, 4:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ultra-Black: Towards a Materialist Theory of Oil - Journal #84 September 2017…

  People think that they sell oil, but in fact they are becoming oil. —Victor Pelevin

  September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter 'The hole' in theory and thought I am interested in 'the hole' in its conceptual, metaphorical, and literal crossovers. Who has written about holes? In the ground? In theory? In myth and fiction? I'd be super keen to read theory that cites specific holes found in myth and fiction,…

  August 28 2017, 10:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Controversial New Theory Suggests Life Wasn't a Fluke of Biology—It Was Physics…

  The biophysicist Jeremy England made waves in 2013 with a new theory that cast the origin of life as an inevitable outcome of thermodynamics.

  August 6 2017, 11:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Accelerationism Without Accelerationism | The Disorder Of Things

  The second post in our forum on Nick and Alex Williams’ Inventing the Future, from Steven Shaviro. Steven is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. He blogs at The…

  July 24 2017, 5:27am | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Bookmark A Grand New Theory of Life's Evolution on Earth - The Atlantic

  A series of energy revolutions—some natural, some technological—built upon one another to give us our rich, diverse biosphere.

  May 20 2017, 6:35am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Hobbit' species did not evolve from ancestor of modern humans, research finds…

  Researchers who studied the bones of Homo floresiensis, a species of tiny human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, say their findings should end a popular theory that…

  April 25 2017, 8:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction

  Science fiction tells us that a change in a past event, caused by the intervention of a time traveler, will open up a parallel timeline that leads to an alternate present.…

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 2 2017, 11:29am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Portfolio Across & Beyond: Transmediale Reader

  February 2 2017, 3:35am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Design+Media Theory | Public Seminar

  Our focus will be on key thinkers across the fields of media, design and technology. The course starts our everyday experience of designed and  mediated environments, whether as creators or regular users (1-3).

  December 30 2016, 9:09am | Comments

• Bookmark In Theory Bakhtin: Dialogism, Polyphony and Heteroglossia | Ceasefire Magazine

  Mikhail Bakhtin was one of the most important theorists of discourse in the twentieth century. He is sometimes termed the most important Soviet thinker in the social sciences. His work also…

  September 7 2016, 11:14am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache SYLLABUS | INTERNET ART: networks, performative programming, and web as…

  This course examines the history, theory, and practice of making art on the web. Beginning with early examples of systems theory, we will trace the utopian ideals of the web’s origin to the commercial and social complexity of…

  September 1 2016, 10:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Transhumanists are searching for a dystopian future - The Washington Post

  Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week, we’re talking about transhumanism. Need a primer? Catch up here. Charles…

  June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Technology won’t undermine human dignity. Fear of change will. - The Washington…

  Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week, we’re talking about transhumanism. Need a primer? Catch up here.

  June 15 2016, 4:59pm | Comments

• Additivism Screening of 3D Additivist Manifesto at Speeding and Braking Conference

  May 10 2016, 6:15am | Comments

• Additivism The thin line between theory and practice: a conversation on...

  April 20 2016, 7:43am | Comments

• Additivism Accelerationist Art

  April 14 2016, 3:44am | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 17 2016, 4:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Open Humanities Press– Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols

  Following on from Theory and the Disappearing Future, Cohen, Colebrook and Miller turn their attention to the eco-critical and environmental humanities’ newest and most fashionable of concepts, the Anthropocene.

  January 9 2016, 8:10am | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism Workshop @ Sonic Acts, Amsterdam (Feb/March 2016)

  Additivism Workshop @ Sonic Acts, Amsterdam (Feb/March 2016)We are excited to announce a 2 day #Additivism Workshop as part of Sonic Acts Academy, Feb/March 2016 The Sonic Acts Academy relates to topics that are connected to the ‘dark matter’ theme Sonic Acts is currently…

  December 22 2015, 4:20am | Comments

• Bookmark BuzzFeed's founder used to write Marxist theory and it explains BuzzFeed perfectly…

  BuzzFeed has achieved an outrageous amount of success in recent years, reaching an estimated 203 million people a month, including 112 million in the US alone, according to Quantcast. There are…

  December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Anthropocene and a Critical Theory of Machines | Heathwood Press

  The significance of the idea of the Anthropocene epoch is centrally about the understanding of human intervention into and extraction from nature, and one that can be signalled in the geological…

  November 28 2015, 4:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Accelerationism Without Accelerationism | The Disorder Of Things

  The second post in our forum on Nick and Alex Williams’ Inventing the Future, from Steven Shaviro. Steven is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. He blogs at The…

  November 7 2015, 9:06am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 30 2015, 9:35am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter The Footprint on Crusoe's Island & its use in critical theory The single appearance of the footprint in Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel, Robinson Crusoe, is perhaps one of the most famous events in all of literature. I am interested in who has referenced it, and for what ends, especially in critical theory. I also…

  September 9 2015, 8:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Fredric Jameson reviews ‘Time Travel’ by David Wittenberg · LRB 10 September…

  It is probably not immediately obvious what interest a new theoretical study of science fiction holds for the mainstream adepts of literary theory; and no doubt it is just as perplexing…

  September 6 2015, 5:18am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 18 2015, 8:42am | Comments

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